Ceramic Stains: The Easy Way to Create All the Colors of the Rainbow on Your Pottery
Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More
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Crazy Beautiful Crazing: Uncovering the Mysteries of Snowflake Crackle Glazes
I have been messing around with crazing as a deliberate decorative effect lately. Though it is technically a glaze defect, … Read More
Easy Peasy Cone 04 Glaze Recipes
In today’s post, our own Holly Goring not only includes some versatile three-ingredient cone 04 glaze recipes, but she also … Read More
A Super Simple Analogy to Help You Understand Glaze Structure
Understanding glaze structure isn’t hard. Ceramic glazes consist of three main components: glass formers, fluxes, and refractories. If you can … Read More
The Low Down on Ceramic Pigments and Stains
Ceramic pigments, often referred to as ceramic stains, have vastly opened up the color possibilities for potters. And as we … Read More
Techno File: Kaolin and Color
Ryan Coppage, PhD and Jenn Wicks
As ceramic artists we commonly focus more on the colorants than the other ingredients in a glaze recipe. But, maybe … Read More
Clay Appliqué Decoration on Functional Pottery
This is a blast from the past post that features some older work of Kari Radasch and her clay appliqué … Read More
Tangible Fiction
I’ve always been fascinated with the tangible realities of history and the boundless fantasy of science fiction. In my work … Read More
How to Use Underglazes for Slip Trailed and Silk Screened Applique
One of my favorite things about ceramics is that there seem to be endless ways to decorate clay surfaces. In … Read More
Recipes: Cone 04-03 Glazes for Fritware
Amethyst, 4 in. (10 cm) in height, white fritware, fritted glaze, oxidation fired to cone 04, 2014.
For the last few … Read More
